Originally Posted by DogBoy
a bit touchy aren't we? I never said I thought motorized vehicles should be on the trail, I was just refuting the implication in the statement "Actually, statistically, less accidents occur on freeways with speeds limits over 75mph yet a very small percentage of american freeways have speed limits above 65."
That implication being that if they raised the speed limits, accident counts would drop.
Touchy? No, just a case of mistaken identity. My post was
meant to be in reply to dog
bro, who started this thread having actually encountered a motorized vehicle on a bike/ped trail/path. It was not related to your "statistically..." sub-thread at all. Oy, having a "TrekRider" and a "Trek Rider" is confusing enuff....
BTW, my wife and I were on our tandem on the Southwest path last year, going over the Beltline overpass, when we hear that all-too-familiar-in-Madison irritating "whiiiiiiiiiinnnnne" of one of those infernal Spree scooters (licensed here, bafflingly enough, as "mopeds") COMING UP THE OVERPASS! So I just stopped the bike crossways (a tandem spans most of the path width) and stood there. Poor guy had to go all the way back down the overpass and exit the Hammersley off-ramp, and cross with the rest of the motor vehicles on Midvale.